Hello!

Until today I was completely unfamiliar with XSL and its uses within a web page to output data easily from an XML file. It seems really straight forward, and 90% useless depending on the following.

Is it like Javascript in the respect that Google (as one example) won't run it to see what it outputs. If XSL is client side will search engine bots only see the template code?

Cheers guys.

Leonard

they will only "see" the XML code.

OK, so it will be out of context of the page and therefore no use as a dynamic solution for something that needs to be search engine friendly?

If you are hoping for the page to be crawled and indexed as it would be in a visual useragent. Then, yes it will be out of context.

www.quixml.org

It's a class I designed and used in several projects.
Based on 2 components:
1) An extension to xmlWriter to create the XML of the pages
2) An xslt wrapper that decide when the transformation should be made in the browser or on the server.

In your case, it could be of help.
It detects which browser it is based on the user-agent string, and decide which rendering should be applied.
In the case of a search-engine robot coming to your site, it would serve the site as HTML. If you use a modern browser, you would receive xml+xsl.

The quixml.org site is build upon that too. Try to look at the source with firefox, you will see the XML.
The xsl is mapped like http://www.quixml.org/xsl/org.quixml.index for the index page.

Cheers for the help guys.

That class looks pretty handy tripy, I shall check it out as soon as I get a chance... just got to get through this pile of donkey work at the moment. Ahhh, mondays....